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August 31, 2014 - Fires in northern Canada
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Fires continued to blaze across Canada’s Northern Territories in late August, 2014. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this true-color image on August 24.
Intense fire activity can be seen north, west and south of the Great Slave Lake. Red hotspots mark areas where the thermal sensor on the MODIS instrument detected high temperatures. Heavy smoke pours from most of these hotspots and in some areas the smoke is extremely dense. When hotspots are combined with smoke, it marks actively burning fire.
According to the Northwest Territories fire update for August 25, 133 active fires were burning in the North Slave region and 117 active fires in South Slave. The fire danger was high to extreme. North of Slave Lake, no new fires had been reported in the last 24 hours, but south reported 3 new fires in the previous 48 hours.
Image Facts
Satellite:
Aqua
Date Acquired: 8/24/2014
Resolutions:
1km ( B), 500m ( B), 250m ( B)
Bands Used: 1,4,3
Image Credit:
Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
Fires continued to blaze across Canada’s Northern Territories in late August, 2014. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this true-color image on August 24.
Intense fire activity can be seen north, west and south of the Great Slave Lake. Red hotspots mark areas where the thermal sensor on the MODIS instrument detected high temperatures. Heavy smoke pours from most of these hotspots and in some areas the smoke is extremely dense. When hotspots are combined with smoke, it marks actively burning fire.
According to the Northwest Territories fire update for August 25, 133 active fires were burning in the North Slave region and 117 active fires in South Slave. The fire danger was high to extreme. North of Slave Lake, no new fires had been reported in the last 24 hours, but south reported 3 new fires in the previous 48 hours.
Image Facts
Satellite:
Aqua
Date Acquired: 8/24/2014
Resolutions:
1km ( B), 500m ( B), 250m ( B)
Bands Used: 1,4,3
Image Credit:
Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
